Pinpoint
How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Published on 3. May 2016
320 pages
978-0-393-24499-1 (ISBN)
Description
"One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books...an extraordinary tale." —Gillian Tett, Financial Times
Pinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity, Greg Milner examines the technology's double-edged effect on the way we live, work, and travel. Savvy and original, this sweeping scientific history offers startling insight into how humans understand their place in the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Windows
ISBN-13
978-0-393-24499-1 (9780393244991)
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06/2016
WW Norton & Co
€47.27
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Greg Milner is the author of Pinpoint and Perfecting Sound Forever, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His writing has appeared in Wired, New York, Slate, Village Voice, Salon, Spin, and Rolling Stone. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction: The Whisper from Space
- Part I: Calculating Route
- 1. Tupaia Goes Home
- 2. The When and the Where
- 3. Global Reach, Global Power
- 4. Ranging the Perfect Beet
- Part II: You Have Arrived
- 5. Death by GPS
- 6. The Hornet's Nest
- 7. Better Living Through Tracking
- 8. Return from Mid-Ice
- 9. Tied Together (40.74375° N 73.9835° W)
- Epilogue: Direction Home
- Afterword to the Paperback Edition
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Praise for Pinpoint
- Also by Greg Milner
- Copyright
